Post-Covid India: Challenges And Priorities Sam Pitroda

The write-up is prepared by Mansoor Palloor based on Sam Pitroda’s lecture in a webinar organised at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Development Studies.

- Mansoor Palloor

It is the high time to think how the country will adjust with the post-Covid-19 world. In that matter, not only India but also the entire world needs to prepare for a big change. Actually, this crisis is a warning from nature. We, humans, have gone astray. It is the high time to right the wrongs.

It is encouraging to see that all of us have started using digital technology when a demand has emerged because of the present period’s special circumstance.

Considering the difficulty involved in travelling long distance only to meet Rahul Gandhi for few minutes, I used to ask him why couldn’t we use the possibility of digital platform – especially the possibility of video calling.

It is natural to feel that it is impossible to conduct a video conference in a perfectly inclusive manner. But, this crisis period has taught us that the said feeling was wrong.